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10 000 000 Mark Verein der Bergwerke am Linken Niederrhein
| Issuer | Verein der Bergwerke am Linken Niederrhein e.V., Moers |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 10 000 000 Mark (10 000 000) |
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| Obverse description | Left vignette shows three coal miners at work in an engraved scene; crossed hammers appear as mining symbols flanking the denomination. Red serial number and manuscript signature of the Vorsitzende appear at lower right on a cream underprint. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse printed in steel-blue with an elaborate guilloche underprint centering the large numeral 10 within an oval cartouche. A decorative lace border frames the entire field. |
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The Verein der Bergwerke am Linken Niederrhein — the association of collieries on the left bank of the Lower Rhine, centered on Moers — issued emergency currency during the Ruhr occupation crisis of 1923, when French and Belgian troops moved in to enforce reparations payments in kind and effectively paralyzed the regional coal industry. German workers went on passive resistance, mines ground to a halt, and payroll liquidity collapsed. Mining associations across the Ruhr basin issued their own notgeld to keep wages moving when Reichsbank notes were both hyperinflatically worthless and physically scarce.
The ten-million denomination places this note squarely in the mid-to-late summer of 1923, before the autumn collapse pushed denominations into the billions.